Sell .GR domains from your hosting store

The official country-code top level domain name extension for the country of Greece was just added to our cutting-edge cloud hosting platform.

What makes .GR domains stand out is the fact that they can be registered by everyone around the world – whether an individual or a business entity. Therefore, you can easily target the well-developed Greek online market to promote your website and the products/services that you offer.

How to enable .GR domains for your store?

If you haven’t made any changes to the TLDs, offered by default on your store, the .GR domains have been enabled automatically.

The one thing that you need to do is set a price and choose how high will they appear anytime a customer makes a domain search.

In case you have made changes to the TLDs that you offer, you will have to enable the .GR TLD by hand. You can do that from the My Offers > Domain Offers section in the Reseller Control Panel:

Why register a .GR domain?

Greece is an Eastern European country which is famous for its ancient history, its mythology and literature. It’s also the birthplace of democracy, the Olympic Games, and the basic mathematical principles.

Because of their long history (dating back to as early as 3200 BC), the Greek people are proud of their legacy and, as researches show, websites that correspond with this. Therefore, if you have a .GR domain name for the Greek market, you’ll get more visits than a .COM website.

The economy in Greece is currently recovering at full speed and it’s probably the best time to target their online market. Your reseller hosting customers will also appreciate this opportunity, so don’t hesitate to enable the .GR domain name extension on your store.

Everywhere around the world, local domain names get higher SERPs. So, if you have an attractive website that is translated in Greek, regardless of its type, an online store, a blog, a community forum, etc. and it uses any other domain name extension, it will be ranked behind all similar websites that have local (.GR) URL addresses.

Another great advantage of the .GR is that it’s easy to pronounce, so it’ll be easy to remember by everyone. In case the origin of your website’s domain name extension is not important to you for some reason, .GR is still a recommended choice.

All Greek private and business users will prefer a .GR website. It’ll also be attractive to everyone else who appreciates the glorious history of this ancient country.

A great part of Greece’s GDP is derived from tourism and it’s a popular international tourist destination. More than 28 million people visited Greece in 2016. There are much more who are yet to do this, but they’re fascinated by its beauty and would often browse through Greek websites.

.GR domains registration requirements?

Everyone is eligible to apply for a .GR domain name registration.

The minimum period for which you can register a .GR domain name is 2 years.

Here are all other technicalities/requirements for .GR domains registrations:

• the domain should contain 3 – 60 characters;
• the first and the last symbol of your domain name can be a letter or a number;
• should use the English character set and may contain letters (i.e., a-z, A-Z), numbers (i.e. 0-9) and dashes (-) or a combination of these;
• you’re not allowed to use a dash in the third or fourth positions of your .GR domain name (for example: www. ab.- – cd.gr);
• the use of space (for instance: www. ab cd.gr) is not allowed;

As of currently, you cannot use ID-protection for a .GR domain name. This means that all registration details for your domain (name, address, e-mail address, etc) will be available in the public WHOIS database.